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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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William James used to preach the will-to-believe. For my part, I should wish to preach the will-to-doubt. None of our beliefs are quite true all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.
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My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
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Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.
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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
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Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.
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More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
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In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.
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It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.
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Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.
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Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.
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A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.
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There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.
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When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.
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It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves.
Bertrand Russell
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
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